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       Faith's Checkbook

      Robert Prodoehl
      Feb 6, 2007


February 7
Return from Backsliding

"If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up" (Job 22:23).

Eliphaz, in this utterance, spoke a great truth, which is the summary of many
an inspired Scripture. Reader, has sin pulled you down? Have you become like a
ruin? Has the hand of the LORD gone out against you so that in estate you are
impoverished and in spirit you are broken down? Was it your own folly which
brought upon you all this dilapidation? Then the first thing to be done is to
return to the LORD. With deep repentance and sincere faith find your way back
from your backsliding. It is you" duty, for you have turned away from Him whom
you professed to serve. It is your wisdom, for you cannot strive against Him
and prosper. It is your immediate necessity, for what He has done is nothing
compared to what He may do in the way of chastisement, since He is Almighty to
punish.

See what a promise invites you! You shall be "built up." None but the Almighty
can set up the fallen pillars and restore the tottering walls of your
condition; but He can and He will do it if you return to Him. Do not delay.
Your crushed mind may quite fail you if you go on to rebel; but hearty
confession will ease you, and humble faith will console you. Do this, and all
will be well.

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Dead to the Law, Serving in the Spirit by John Piper


"Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body
of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from
the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God." Rom 7:4


His answer is that when you died to the law you were joined to Christ. You
weren't freed from the law just to float around in no relationship at all. You
were freed from the law and united to Christ. Christ is your new "husband." And
notice what it says about this Christ – "who was raised from the dead." This
person we are joined to is alive. This is no list of commandments. This is no
external slate of duties. This is a spiritual union with an all-glorious,
all-providing, all-satisfying, ever-living Person. More real than the person
sitting next to you.


And the aim of this joining (this "marriage"), he says, is that you "bear fruit
for God." There it is. You don't go on sinning. If you are in Christ,
justified, and married to your Savior, Jesus, you bear fruit for God. That
means that new desires and attitudes and choices and actions grow like fruit
from this all-satisfying relationship between you and your living "husband,"
Jesus Christ.


So being set free from the law does not mean freedom from love and justice; it
means freedom to marry the one who is love – the one who produces love in us
from the inside out – like fruit on a vine, not tinsel on a tree.


From the inside out by the Spirit, not from the outside in by the law – that's
the point of verse 6: "But now we have been released from the Law, having died
to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and
not in oldness of the letter." Why did we die to the law? Why are we released
from the law? Why are we not under the law? So that we may sin all the more?
No! So that we may "serve" – death to the law makes servants, not sinners.

http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/Sermons/ByScripture/10/46_Dead_to_th
e_Law_Serving_in_the_Spirit_Part_1/
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